Listen to an account of two women who led remarkable lives despite the fact that both were married to very difficult men namely William the Conqueror and England’s first Plantagenet king, Henry II…

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Our second podcast features two outstanding Anglo-Saxons, who have been described as the most significant and important people ever born in England.  The material discusses the incredible stories of Aethelflaed Lady of the Mercians and her brother King Edward the Elder.  Both were children of Alfred the Great and in the 10th century, they formed a devastating partnership, with the intention of retaking large swathes of territory from Danish invaders and settlers, throughout England.  Together, this couple lived out their father’s dream of a united Angleland, with inhabitants speaking one language and worshipping one God.

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Our first podcast offers a description of the project entitled ‘A Woman’s Place ‘?®.  It also features historical accounts of two remarkable women who were thrust into the limelight during the early years of the Anglo-Saxon age.  The first subject is Saint Hilda of Whitby and the second, Saint Bertha of Kent: both played significant roles in christianising the pagan Anglo-Saxons, which served eventually to unify the disparate and fractious realms, which existed in the country we know as England.

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